Twitter censors Tony Heller tweet of YouTube censorship notice: Noted climate skeptic Tony Heller took to Twitter to share a screenshot of his YouTube censorship notice. In the alleged notice, YouTube noted that it had removed a video titled "Bill Gates: Reducing World Population With New Vaccines." This video was a clip from a Feb 2010 TED Talk given by Gates discussing ways to reduce carbon emission, seemingly in part by reducing world population through the use of "vaccines, health care and reproductive health services." It is unclear what Gates' actual meaning was in his statement, but the video honed in on this theory. YouTube, according to the screenshot, claimed that the video violated its medical misinformation policy. Twitter placed a sensitive content filter over the screenshot. Such filters do not allow users on the mobile app who have the sensitive filter enabled on their profile, the default setting, to view the filtered content at all. On the web version of Twitter, the users must click through the sensitive content interstitial in order to view the filtered content. Not only do such filters give the impression of inappropriate content, similar filters have been shown to reduce user interaction with content.
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